“Forget Thiago Silva error” – Cesar Azpilicueta finally reveals who to blame for Salzburg Equaliser
Cesar Azpilicueta, the captain of Chelsea, has reassured supporters that their team will unquestionably advance to the UCL knockout round and asked them not to hold Thiago Silva accountable for Salzburg’s equalizer.
Raheem Sterling’s magnificent effort in the second half gave Chelsea a chance to win Graham Potter’s first game in charge.
However, Thiago Silva’s oversight resulted in the visitor’s equalizer in the game’s closing moments.
Azpilicueta, the team’s captain, has since defended his teammate and promised fans that they will go to the knockout stage.
He said : “The goals were we concede and we score, we do that as a team,” he told beIN SPORTS. “We can go through the goal and there are other positions that we can improve.
“We had the ball and that’s what we have to improve. We need to be more effective in both boxes and when we arrive we can score more goals. When they arrive, a few times lately, we are conceding. As a collective we have to get better.”
“We are Chelsea, “I have full confidence that this group will work hard and will fight until the end. It’s true that it’s not the position that we wanted after the first two games but it’s still in our hands.
“We have 12 points in front of us. If we grab them we will go through. That’s where Chelsea belong. So that’s where we want to be. We have to go day-by-day, working hard.
“Now we have an international break. We don’t play at the weekend and hopefully we can regroup, stick together and after the international break we’ll be playing every three days and we need everybody. Hopefully we will do it.”